KPOP Demon Hunters: An Evening with the Art Team

Mingjue Helen Chen is a visual development artist and production designer currently based in Los Angeles. She graduated Academy of Art University in 2010 and has been working in the animation industry since, with clients like Walt Disney Animation Studios, Warner Brothers studios, Paramount Animation, Netflix Animation, and Sony Pictures Animation. Notable projects include Frankenweenie, Wreck-It Ralph, Big Hero 6, Wish Dragon, Raya and the Last Dragon, and most recently served as Production Designer for Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation's K-Pop Demon Hunters.

Joshua Beveridge is the Head of Character Animation at Sony Pictures Imageworks, most recently completing work on KPOP Demon Hunters, for Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix. Beveridge joined Imageworks in 2005 and his credits include: The Sea Beast, the Academy Award®-winning Spider-man: Into The Spider-verse, Storks, Hotel Transylvania 2, Alice In Wonderland, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, I Am Legend, Surf’s Up, Open Season, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, and Arthur Christmas. Beveridge attended the Ringling College of Art & Design and graduated with a degree in animation. He received a Visual Effects Society Award for his contribution to Spider-man: Into The Spider-verse and a nomination for I Am Legend. He is a member of AMPAS, VES, and ASIFA.

Wendell Dalit is a visual development artist at Sony Pictures Animation, currently working on the highly-anticipated conclusion to the studio's groundbreaking Spider-Verse trilogy, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Most recently, he served as art director on the studio's global breakout hit KPOP Demon Hunters.

Dalit previously served as a visual development artist on the Academy Award® winner Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.  He also served as the art director on “Vivo,” Sony Pictures Animation's first-ever animated musical, featuring all new songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda. In his role, he helped oversee the film’s design, look development, and surfacing.

Dalit joined Sony Pictures Animation in 2014 as a visual development artist on several features including Smurfs: The Lost Village and The Emoji Movie. Dalit was born in Manila, Philippines and was raised in San Jose, California, where he went on to study Illustration at San Jose State University.